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 senatus consultum and senatus auctoritas, 272. Powers of the Senate; its probouleutic authority, 273. Suspension of magistrates, 275. Quasi-legislative power, 275. Power of exempting from laws, 276. Revising power, 276. Influence on jurisdiction, 277. Appointment of special commissions, 278. Declaration of martial law, 279. Police control, 282. Control of foreign policy, 282. Control of finance, 286. Control of religion, 287.

CHAPTER VII

THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF ROME AND THE INCORPORATION OF ITALY

Difference between the Greek and Italian conceptions of international law, 289. International customs of Rome, 290. International relations with foreign states, 292. The jus gentium, 294. The federation of Latium, 295. Extension of the league and change in its character, 296. The organisation of Italy; cives and socii, 299. Proposals to extend the franchise, 310. Settlement after the social war, 312. Incorporation of Cisalpine Gaul, 314.

CHAPTER VIII

THE ORGANISATION AND GOVERNMENT OF THE PROVINCES

Origin of provincial government, 316. The conception of a provincia, 317. Free and allied cities, 317. Stipendiariae civitates; the ''lex provinciae'', 318. Taxation, 319. The governor and his staff, 322. The spheres of administration, 324. Jurisdiction, 325. The provincial edict, 326. General estimate of provincial government, 328.

CHAPTER IX

THE REVOLUTION AND THE TRANSITION TO THE PRINCIPATE

Objects of the party of reform, 331. Elements in the party of reform, 332. The balance of parties; the equites, 333. The issue of the struggle, 334. The sole rule of Caesar, 336. The Triumvirate and the establishment of the Principate, 338.

CHAPTER X

THE PRINCIPATE

1. The chief bases of the Princeps' authority; the proconsulare imperium and the tribunicia potestas; nature of the imperium, 341. Powers